What has four-wheels and flies? The answer will piss you off! ! !

[graywarrior]

On Monday, April 16th, 2007 Center for Independent Living of North Central Florida staff at the Ocala branch office received NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING (NCIL)

ACTION ALERT

Boycott Hate
a call from a consumer who was concerned about a street sign posted in front of Hercules Fence Co., Inc. and Good Guys Auto Service in Ocala, FL. The sign read: “What has four-wheels and flies? A dead cripple in a wheelchair.”
Upon finding the sign, CIL staffer, Carol Terrillion, entered the business and raised the issue with the employees. No one was willing to take responsibility for the sign or take it down. CIL staff immediately went to work, plugging into local consumer and community networks. Additionally, CIL staff quickly organized a protest and press conference in front of Hercules Fence/Good Guys Auto Service. NCIL joins the CIL in asking people to participate in a telephone campaign to educate this business about this hateful treatment of people with disabilities.
Hercules Fence can be reached at [phone].
On Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 CIL Director, William Kennedy, led a press conference and protest. The press conference was covered by local TV, radio and print media. Advocates from FACL, FILC, the Advocacy Center for People with Disabilities, and others got the word out statewide. By the end of the day we estimate that over 100 callers voiced their disgust with the sign by placing telephone calls to the businesses. Local ABC affiliate TV20 ran coverage of the press conference at 6 PM and 11 PM.
On Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 the story ran on the front page of the Ocala Star Banner and it was the topic of discussion on all three major local radio talk shows. The CBS affiliate Channel 10 from Tampa Bay as well as ABC affiliate Channel 9 from Orlando visited both the business and the CIL. While at Hercules Fence/Good Guy Auto Service the Channel 10 reporters were assaulted by employees of the company and pushed out the door. The reporters met with Marion County Sheriffs’ deputies at the CIL office and filed a police report. A report also aired on WESH Ch. 2 in Orlando and WJXT Ch. 4 in Jacksonville.
In the afternoon CIL Director went to an area sign company and had a sign made: a 2 x 8 ft. magnetic sign which read “Boycott Hate.” William stuck the sign on his van and drove out to Hercules Fence/Good Guy Auto Service location and parked in front of the business in time to be seen by 5 o’clock traffic. Maricamp Road, where the business is located, is a major thoroughfare. Many cars honked and gave a thumbs-up to William. However, at one point William was confronted by an employee and business patron and a small shouting match/debate ensued.
NCIL urges advocates to contact Hercules and express outrage over this ignorant hate speech. Hercules Fence can be reached at [phone]. Much thanks to all Center for Independent Living staff who confronted the business and continue to raise awareness about the rights of people with disabilities in Florida.

Center for Independent Living Director and his Boycott hate sign



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[ck4829]

1. I don't get it. Must be one of those jokes you have to be an idiot in order to understand.

[KittyWampus]

34. wheelchairs have 4 wheels?

[firefox_fan]

36. Don't get it.

[qdemn7]

37. Yes

Two big ones and two little ones.

Incredibly tasteless sign.

[Rex]

2. Sick.

nt

[BattyDem]

3. What the ...

:wtf: :wow: :grr:

[Madspirit]

4. DISGUSTING...n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

5. 3rd grade "humor"

Not only is this disgusting, it is beyond juvenile. What year is this again?!

[Monkeyman]

6. Here's Your Sign Dumb Asses

[tularetom]

7. Who has a big sign and a tiny dick?

the owner of Good guys Auto service and Hercules Fence Co.

They assaulted the TV reporters? Thats always a good policy. Stupid rednecks.

[barb162]

8. I don't get the flying part at all

weird

[karlrschneider]

11. It's the old joke reprised. Original answer, a garbage truck.

flies, like as in houseflies...that you swat.
"good guys" my ass...

:eyes:

[barb162]

28. Thanks (I never heard that old joke)

[Bicoastal]

12. Flies = insects.

It's a pun, although not a terribly funny one.

You may have heard this joke in Kindergarten, although back then the punch line would have been "A Garbage Truck."

[karlrschneider]

13. I guess it could be this

[MLFerrell]

41. We have a winnah!

:rofl:

Raw full...

[barb162]

29. I never heard it at all

Thanks for telling me

[NMDemDist2]

16. not 'flies' like flying, flies like insects drawn to carrion n/t

[merh]

9. I don't get it

I hope that is a good thing, but I don't get the humor or the riddle or the joke or meaning.

I do understand the disgust, however. :grr:

[Igel]

31. You'd hate a standard example in linguistics:

"Time flies like an arrow". Three-way ambiguous (finding two-way ambiguous utterances isn't hard, finding three-way ambiguous utterances is a bit harder).

One reading: As an arrow flies, so does time.

A second reading: "Arrows are liked by insects known as 'time flies'."

Third reading: "One should endeavor to measure the amount of time flies take to do something just as you would measure the time it takes an arrow to do the same thing."

The reason for the ambiguity and the theoretical structures given by generative syntax to the setnence are why it's introduced.

[PegDAC]

39. Another Chomsky acolyte.

Over 35 years ago I did my undergraduate thesis on teaching generative-transformational grammar.

[eleny]

10. You mean they haven't taken it down yet?

K&R

[bobbolink]

14. Yet, people can't understand how some can become so sick of this society

that death is a better alternative.

This is one very good example.

How many have actually reached out to those who were personally hurt by this shit???????

[BlooInBloo]

17. Um... yeaah... there's a looooong way to go from a jackass joke to mass murder.

[BlooInBloo]

15. Aawww - look mom! hicks!

[AlCzervik]

18. "Good guys auto service" Irony alert.

[ThingsGottaChange]

19. I can't believe what I'm seeing!!!!!

I still can't un-gape my mouth! This is just too frightening. I did find this:

HERCULES FENCE COMPANY, INC.132 HERCULES FENCE COMPANY, INC.
Address 4660 S.E. MARICAMP RD.
OCALA FL 34480
County 42
Status Code DMS REGISTERED
Minority Code A
Business Designation 1
Contact Name CHRISTIAN CUBBEDGE
Phone Number to Contact [phone]
Email Address [e-mail]

and this:

Good-Guys Auto Service Inc
4680 SE Maricamp Rd
Ocala, FL 34480
[phone]
[phone]

You know, if you just want to say "hi" to them!

[darkstar]

20. Thanks...as I was nearing end of thread, I thought

"I'm think I might have to go find their their particulars and post them for DUers' fencing and auto service needs."

My car has been acting up....

[flvegan]

24. You mean, like this?

BUCHKOVICH, PAUL A
4210 SE 44 ST.
OCALA FL 34480

BUCHKOVICH, SHIRLY E
4210 SE 44 ST.
OCALA FL 34480

These are the publicly listed names of the owners/directors of both of those companies. As luck would have it, they also own the dirt upon which those two businesses reside. After checking the additional public records, this is indeed their homestead property.

[BlooInBloo]

27. Oh boy.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

21. this is where rich little got the idea to have a wheelchair joke

in his "routine."

[tblue37]

22. They are idiots.

While at Hercules Fence/Good Guy Auto Service the Channel 10 reporters were assaulted by employees of the company and pushed out the door.

This is beyond stupid. They assaulted reporters for a TV station. That will guarantee that the story not only gets plenty of coverage, but the coverage will be even more negative than it otherwise might have been.

Ironic that one business is called "Good Guys Auto Service."

[gravity]

23. Capitalism will get the best of their business

They can make hateful comments, but they shouldn't be surprised if they start losing customers.

[graywarrior]

25. You should visit Ocala.

Just sayin'.

[FloridaJudy]

32. You really don't want to visit Ocala

It's forty miles from here. Infested with Repukes, needless to say.

As for the "joke": Ewwwwww :puke:

[graywarrior]

40. I went there once. That was enough.

[bobbolink]

26. I'm sure the relatives and friends of the elderly who died in NOLA will get the humor.

That picture of the blankets covering bodies in wheel chairs will stay with me forever.

People have been discussing how there can be such violence in this country.

This is a good place to start looking.

THIS IS VIOLENCE!

[graywarrior]

30. You are right. It is the worst type of violence.

[bobbolink]

43. THere's so much violence, I don't know that we can pick the "worst"

So many control freaks, so little time.

This society is hopeless.

[Colobo]

33. Sick... really sick.

[Solly Mack]

35. The people that did that are garbage - nothing but

[Ezlivin]

38. I guess I'll have to drive an iBot into that business and make 'em count wheels

I'm a cripple, but I'm not dead. (And what a bad joke. Gimps turn to Callahan for good crippled jokes.)

[tomreedtoon]

42. What was the owner thinking?

"Gee, which will bring me more business? Advertising my services? Maybe running a sale? Giving a sunny feel-good message about God's love? That last one's a favorite in Florida, even among people for whom God is money. No, I know what - I'll put out an insulting fourth-grade black-humor joke about the handicapped! The public will flock to my place!"

This guy is quite a businessman. Very much like the guy running News Corp. Look for the mechanic to appear in a feature article in the Wall Street Whore Journal: "Prejudice means Profit - Ocala car shop owner taps into the hearts of right-wing Christians."